Long Days, Long Months: 4 August

I've been reading A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History by Manuel de Landa, and now Everything Is Cinema by Richard Brody. What a surprise that a book on Jean-Luc Godard written by a member of the New Yorker staff accuses him of being an anti-Semite. I suppose I shouldn't have skipped to the end, but I wanted to read the chapters on Eloge d'Amour and Notre Musique. Are New Yorker writers required to be smart, but strangely clueless? as if reminding the world that the very notion of New York being a center of global culture had always been a sick joke.

Some "sharity" postings deserve special notice because they offer Free Audio Lossless Codec (F L A C) files, not M P 3. Given that most listeners willing to pay money for M P 3 files probably don't fill their computer to the brim with downloaded music, one would hope that the artists and record labels doing the selling would begin to offer F L A C files, despite their larger size (keep in mind how much more space computers have now, compared to a decade ago when widespread M P 3 downloading began). Maybe they will begin to do so, years from now, when playback media have changed yet again, much like decent re-masterings of analog recordings for the C D format didn't start until the format was, unbeknownst to most, beginning its decline. C'est la vie!